Who Are We? Africa and the Problem of Black American Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tunde Adeleke (0000-0002-0526-1555, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-86 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-029-01-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2003499283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
Introduction In The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History In The Antebellum Free Communities, Elizabeth Raul Bethel (1997) identifies two critical events that shaped black American consciousness and identity in the nineteenth century. The first was the Haitian revolution of 1791-1804, which resulted in the overthrow of French plantocratic hegemony by black slaves. For blacks in the United States and elsewhere, the revolution represented both a "model of political agency and racial achievement" that was denied to them, and the potency and possibilities of nationalism in the context of new world experience. It consequently nurtured optimism on the prospect of transcending enslavement (Bethel 1997, 82). The second was the 1807-1808 federal legislation prohibiting ships flying under the U.S. flag from engaging in the importation of slaves. Blacks welcomed this as signaling an end to the long sufferings brought upon Africans by enslavement and the transplantation process. This enthusiastic and joyous response betrayed a growing consciousness of affinity with Africans. The legislation thus induced optimistic expectations about the future of Africa and her descendants abroad, and many blacks began to envision eventual reunification with a lost African identity (81-82)
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Black Power · Context (archaeology · Hegemony · Identity (music · Legislation · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law
Forging freedom
The golden age of Black nationalism, 1850-1925
The arrogance of race
The ruling race
Afrocentrism
The world the slaveholders made
North of slavery
Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience, Volume I to 1877 (Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience)
Kemet, Afrocentricity, and knowledge
Holy warriors
The Peculiar Institution
UnAfrican Americans
The Search for a Black Nationality
Working People of Philadelphia, 1800-1850
Coming through the Fire
The Racial Contract
American Negro Slave Revolts
Alexander Crummell
The Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1850
A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Abolitionism
Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave
Blacks in Colonial America
Courage and Conscience
Free People of Color
Gentlemen of Property and Standing
Out of America
Bishop Turner's African Dream
Platform for Change
The American Moral Reform Society, 1836-1841
Black Freedom
A Tragic Conception of Negro History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |